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If you love your dog more than most humans, you can show your pupper by making them some allergen-free dog treats. My pibble is allergic to so many things, but these crunchy dried sweet potato dog treats are pup-approved.

This recipe makes around 60-70 allergen-free dog treats.

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• Recipe
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Ingredient Substitutions
• Video
• Nutritional Information
• Contact Me with Questions
• Similar Recipes

This year, Macchiato’s adoptiversary (which I recently learned from her IG friends is called her gotcha day) fell in the same week as Easter. We adopted her from a shelter in San Jose, CA on April 8, 2018, and they guessed she was 2 ½ at the time. So, that makes her around 5 ½ now! I wanted to do something special for her gotcha day this year, so I made her homemade dehydrated dog treats and hid them in plastic easter eggs around the house for her to find on Easter morning. It took her a couple of hours to find them all, but don’t worry, I edited the boring parts out of the video.

One of the many things that makes Macchiato a high maintenance daughter/dog is that she’s got allergies galore. She’s even allergic to peanut butter, and do you know how difficult it is to find dog food and treats that don’t have peanuts in them? Take my word for it. Luckily, Halo makes vegan dog food that is allergen free. They also make some sweet potato vegan dog treats that inspired the recipe for these homemade vegan dog treats. I basically just read the ingredients from the bag and developed this recipe based on those ingredients.

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Ingredients for Dehydrated Sweet Potato Dog Treats

(jump to the substitutions section to see ingredient details and suggestions for substitutions)

• ½ cup (120g) yam, baked, skin removed, and then measured
• ½ cup (110g) raw carrots (I used 1 ½ carrots)
• ½ cup (85g) cooked and rinsed chickpeas
• ¼ cup (45g) cooked quinoa
• 2 tablespoons (30ml) flax oil (or sub coconut oil)
• 1 cup (90g) oat flour
• ¼ cup (60ml) water

How to Make DIY Sweet Potato Dog Treats

prep time: 50 min | dehydrator time: 24 hours

Chop the carrots into 1-2” pieces and add to the bowl of a food processor fitted with an S blade.

Process the carrots until they’re finely chopped.

Add ½ cup (120g) yam, ½ cup (85g) chickpeas, ¼ cup (45g) quinoa (I cooked mine using a 1:1 ratio of quinoa to water in my instant pot on high pressure for 1 minute with a natural release), and 2 tablespoons (30ml) oil to the food processor.

Process the ingredients until they’re well blended.

Add 1 cup (90g) of oat flour and ¼ cup (60ml) of water.

Process the ingredients again, using a silicone spatula to scrape down the sides if needed.

Transfer the contents of the food processor to a piping bag or a plastic produce bag with a small hole cut at the end.

Pipe the treat dough onto dehydrator trays covered in teflex sheets or silicon mats until you’ve used up all the dough. If you want heart shaped dog treats like mine, pipe them into heart shapes.

Dehydrate for 24 hours at 115º to preserve the enzymes. To convert this dehydrator recipe into an oven recipe, bake these 6 hours at 200ºF (95ºC).

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I convert this dehydrated sweet potato dog treat recipe into an oven recipe?

To convert this dried sweet potato dog treat recipe into an oven recipe, bake them for 6 hours at 200ºF (95ºC).

Does it really take 24 hours to dehydrate these?

If you want crunchy dog treats that won’t need to be refrigerator, err on the side of caution and leave them in the dehyrator for 24 hours. If you plan to store them in the fridge and don’t need them to be shelf-stable, then you might be able to take yours out of the drier sooner.

Ingredient Details and Substitutions

• Sweet Potato: In place of sweet potatoes, you can use yams or even baked winter squash.
• Carrots: In place of carrots, you can use an additional baked sweet potato.
• Chickpeas: I’ve made this recipe with black beans in place of the chickpeas. Pinto beans and kidney beans are also good alternatives. Just don’t use canned beans that have added salt or anything else added.
• Quinoa: I’ve made this recipe with brown rice instead of quinoa.
• Flax Oil: I recommend using flax oil because it has a lot of health benefits for doggos. However, dogs also really like coconut oil so that’s a good substitute.
• Oat Flour: If you don’t have oat flour, you can make your own by putting oats in the blender. That’s what I did. If your dog doesn’t have allergies, you can replace the oat flour with another flour like spelt or whole wheat.

Video

Here’s a video of my dog finding them on her easter egg hunt Easter morning.

Nutrition Facts

Since this recipe makes a different number of dog treats based on the size and thickness you make them, I’m basing the nutritional value on this recipe making 60 treats.

• Servings: 60
• Calories per serving: 16
• Calcium per serving: 3mg
• Cholesterol per serving: 0mg
• Dietary Fiber per serving: <1g
• Folate per serving: 4mcg
• Iron per serving: <1mg
• Potassium per serving: 26mg
• Protein per serving: <1g
• Total Carbohydrate per serving: 2g
• Total Fat per serving: <1g
• Total Sugars per serving: <1g
• Sodium per serving: 3mg

Comments or Questions?

If you make this vegan gluten-free dog treats recipe, I would love it if you’d snap a pic, post to instagram, and tag me @vegandollhouse. It seriously makes my day/week/month!

Please message me (instagram or email) if you have any questions or feedback about the recipe.

Similar Recipes

For other easy wheat-free vegan dog treats recipes you can make at home, check out my my one-ingredient dried pumpkin dog treats recipe. If you have a dog with other allergies as well, you might also like my recipe to make a banana birthday cake for dogs.

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